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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I just recently came across Jennifer Chiaverini and have read her first two books in a week. I liked the first book a lot, but Round Robin absolutely touched me. It is for women, about women - - and I related with the struggles and problems each encounted, but was sustained and uplifted by the friendship and support they gave to each other. I laughed - I cried - - and I found a support group that was incredible. I can hardly wait to read the next book in the series. I'm just grateful that Jennifer Chiaverini is a young woman - - I am looking forward to many more books to come!
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I loved Round Robin and I thought it was much better than the author's first book. I enjoyed each of the stories of the Elm Creek quilters. This is a great book for quilt lovers, which I am one. However, this book with its great stories would appeal to other readers as well. Of course, I want to go a quilt camp like the one depicted in the book.
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Summary: A Terrific, Engaging Story
Review: I loved this book even more than Chiaverini's Quilter's Apprentice, because she writes in more detail about all the women of the quilting circle and weaves their stories together. I'm not a quilter and you really don't have to be to enjoy either of these novels. I was especially touched by the stories of two of the women--one a middle aged woman who secretly finds her husband straying and has to figure out how, or if, she wants to fight that battle, and the other a successful Amerasian woman who is faced with meeting her American relatives for the first time. These women seem real--they're strong and funny and sometimes foolish, but you come away feeling that they are friends you'd hope to make in your own life. I didn't want this book to end.
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Summary: Round Robin
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book --- even more than I enjoyed Quilter's Apprentice. Jennifer has a real talent for capturing the feelings that we quilters share about our work and our families. The story is similar to How To Make An American Quilt, in that it shares a little vignette about each of the lead characters and their lives. I recommend this book highly to anyone who wants to read about quilters and their special connection to each other.
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Summary: Loved it !
Review: I was captured in the Manor right along with the writer!! Loved it thanks cant wait for book 3??
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Summary: So close to being good
Review: I was looking forward to reading this, but it just didn't live up to my expectations. The book is very poorly edited, which caused me no end of distraction. It has the feel of a religious Harlequin romance novel, although religion never really shows up. I felt preached at. I wanted to know what happened to the characters, but felt like I was having to slog through the poor writing and editing to f ind out.
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Summary: Boring and stereotypical
Review: I'm not a quilter, but I believe that a good book should appeal to me nevertheless. "Round Robin" seemed good on the cover but dissapointed me completely. I was expecting a story about real women and their lives, and instead I found this silly plot and unrealistic heroes. The dialogues were unbelievable and the whole book gave me an overall feeling of soap opera. The book might be great for soap opera fans, but I just wish the cover would make this more explicit... I'm sorry I wasted my money and time on such a book.
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Summary: delightful
Review: In her second book, Chiaverini picks up the story of Sarah McClure, Sylvia Compton and the Elm Creek Quilters. The Elm Creek Quilters have decided to make a round robin quilt for Sylvia. A round robin quilt is pieced together by several people; one person makes the center and each person in turn adds a border. A new story unveils with each person who works on the quilt and each border added reflects the conflict that person faced. I particularly enjoyed this book because we got a chance to meet the other members of the Elm Creek Quilters who were only briefly introduced in the first book (The Quilter's Apprentice). I would have given this book 5 stars except that the ending was a bit flimsy.
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Summary: A pleasure to read!
Review: In the first book of the series, Quilter's Apprentice, the Elm Creek quilt camp is established. In this second book of the series, author Chiaverini takes us deeper into the lives of the Elm Creek Quilters. We read about a mother and daughter who don't get along, a woman whose father deserted her mother before she was born, a mother having trouble with her teenage son, a quilter whose husband is considering adultery, and others. Quilters will probably enjoy this book on several levels, but even a non-quilter such as myself can appreciate reading about the talents of others and will enjoy the friendship and support that the women in this book give to one another.
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Summary: Lovely story of friendship and family redemption
Review: In the first book of the series, Quilter's Apprentice, the Elm Creek quilt camp is established. In this second book of the series, author Chiaverini takes us deeper into the lives of the Elm Creek Quilters. We read about a mother and daughter who don't get along, a woman whose father deserted her mother before she was born, a mother having trouble with her teenage son, a quilter whose husband is considering adultery, and others. Quilters will probably enjoy this book on several levels, but even a non-quilter such as myself can appreciate reading about the talents of others and will enjoy the friendship and support that the women in this book give to one another.
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